英和和英

名詞

duckfluff (uncountable)

1. (rare) Down from a duck.
   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him.

   • 1995, Deborah Bedford, Chickadee, →ISBN, page 47:

     Then, as if he sensed her watching him, or maybe because he caught a glimpse of movement behind the glass, he jumped down with both feet and came barreling — with a large portion of white hair sticking up like duckfluff from a cowlick on his forehead — toward the long, low porch of the store.

   • 2000 -, Christina L. Sheil, Letting Go, →ISBN, page 23:

     With a groan, Tristan rolled out of bed, his soft blond hair sticking up like duckfluff.